words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 55m“I’m not leaving you,” Seivarden said. “Don’t you remember when I told you you were stuck with me?” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 1hNINE: They had to sew it by hand even to get that much. It feels like they shouldn’t have been able to do it. MIMI: That’s how much they loved you, isn’t it? That’s how badly they wanted to bring you into the universe. NINE: It is. I think about them a lot. I remember them all. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 2hYou ever feel like you’re blundering ceaselessly through the dark? 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 4hAnd like, there is this like, breath of creativity. This is the Breath of Hieron, right? That comes into the room tonight. And it’s a nice night. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 5hDuck is the perfect horse, all other horses are pale imitations. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 7h“There’s no one that can tell me no. But there’s no one that can give the okay. I gave myself the job of staying.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 9hNINE: I love you guys. TEN: Love you too. JUICE: love y’all too NINE: This is the end, right? The end of this story? TEN: We were always at the end. It’s a free play, buddy. Clock’s all zeroes. It’s after the end of the world. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11hNow Elliot grinned, and it was a grin that made her think it could prise you right open and let the light come rip-roaring in at you. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 12h“When you’re doing something like this, the odds are irrelevant. You don’t need to know the odds. You need to know how to do the thing you’re trying to do. And then you need to do it. What comes next isn’t something you have control over.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 13hI wonder if there’s a single place in the whole world that’s never had a story. I bet not. I just about guarantee you there’s no place like that in America. Every little square of it, every place you stomp your foot, that’s where something happened. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 14hHella has seen me at my best and at my worst. I will not let her doubt my devotion. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 15h“The idea of you and Baru against the world, even against that part of the world which you pretend to love to serve, will always fill you with longing.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 16h“They only needed four, sir.” “Four battalions?” “Ha ha! No, sir. Four individuals made off with the camera that sees everything, sir.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 17h“Where are you from on Earth, just so I have a picture of this?” “Seattle.” “Okay.” “It’s a city. It’s an island city. I don’t know, it’s like rainy, and cold, good music.” 010
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 18h“Why chains? It's because there are some people at large in the world right now who need to be chained to hell.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 19hBalion Wythe, Venture Captain of the Wythered Route Mercenary Company, has saved the life of Rosemerrow's chancellor, Gilbert Lutz, six times. She will not save it a seventh. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 21h“Yeah, Broun, if that’s what you want, that’s easy for me to promise.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 22hThe world is made of more than particles. It’s made of things you can’t hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 23hI told you I thought we were a strong team, but it’s not me that’s strong. It’s everyone together. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 12/10/2026“So we should each, everyday, walk through the world… and bring new things into being. In this way we honor what we’ve lost, because that was the gift given to us. Our lives, our bodies. Our souls. All that we are.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“Ohhh, my god, I remember that jelly juice, that was so good. I can have, and did have, like nine or ten – like eleven, twelve, thir– I could just down ‘em over and over. They're good.” 010
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“Tell him none of this is his fault. It was already burning. He’s just the first spark of the fire. Tell him he knows everything he needs to know and feels everything he needs to feel. And when the day comes and those two pull together, he will be an unstoppable force for good.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“Now, now, can’t have you cryin’. Not on Train Day!” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“I hear the Divines never rust.” “I’ve never seen one in the rain.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026There's an old man with a guitar in front of you. And you’re standing among friends. Hella, and Hadrian. Adaire you don't really know that well, but... there's something very familiar about this old man with a guitar. And he’s gonna tell you a story. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Hella has seen me at my best and at my worst. I will not let her doubt my devotion. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“I am a good bounty hunter, and one day I will rule the stars.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“I got a whole spread. Chocolate chip, gingersnap, oatmeal raisin... We’ve got at least four different kinds. The fourth one’s a mystery cookie, that’s what – that’s why I like it.” “Do you know what the mystery cookie is?” “No, and that’s why I like it.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026No real endings, no final perfect happiness, no irredeemable despair. Yes, breakfasts and suppers. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“I feel like people are always speaking with their eyes, their bodies, their hands, gestures, intonation, and their words – only mostly all we hear are the words. And the words get in the way. So if we just spoke with our eyes we might get closer to the truth.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026She makes a joke that you two used to have, and you laugh at it, but it’s the laugh at hearing it for the first time. Not the laugh she hoped for. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“Tau?” he said, in bemusement. “But…” “But what? But I’m too kind to tell the truth? But I’m too gentle to lay it out in public? But I’m too soft to do this to you?” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026YOU – “What kind of name is ‘Harrier’?” KIM KITSURAGI – “It’s a wartime name. Revolutionary. The kind mothers give their sons during troubled times.” ENDURANCE – It’s meant to keep you safe. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“If every god sprang from somethin’ else, where did I come from? Well, one day, Nothing flinched. And there I was. And instantly, it regretted me.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Three, two – there’s no such thing; it’s a magic show; it’s an optical illusion; a glimpsed hallucination; it’s a camera trick– No, it’s not, it’s Elliot Baranski. One. She closed her eyes and took a step forward. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“If that’s what you’re willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you loved?” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“I was hurt and disappointed when I saw how you felt. But there are two parts to reacting, aren’t there. How you feel, and what you do. And it’s the thing you do that’s the important one, isn’t it?” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“Death is not among my fears. But there is one thing I do fear, and one thing alone: that time will quiet the rage in my heart.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“You sound like you’re in love,” Abdumasi says, “I read that you can fall in love with someone before you’ve ever met them. And when you see them at last, you say, “Oh, that’s why I hurt,” like you just found an old splinter buried in your foot.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“How could it be logical or reasonable that someone as incredible as Figueroth would find any quality of yours worthwhile?” “The fact that I have not found such a quality in myself does not mean that someone as brilliant as Figueroth couldn't find something in me worthwhile.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I’ll show you just how much we can grow from the concrete. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“No one’s gonna die on our ship.” “Several people have died on our ship.” 000
